Latest / Quiz Quiz Bang Bang Trivia Podcast / Ep 284: General Trivia
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- 0:16Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Quiz Quiz Bang Bang, the pub
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- 0:30Speaker 2: We didn't watch anything besides the first season.
- 0:33Speaker 1: We started the second one. I haven't pursued it yet. No,
- 0:36Speaker 1: we might, we might. It's a good show though. We
- 0:40Speaker 1: have Cherrivia on Zoom coming up second Saturday of August
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- 1:24Speaker 1: Thanks Michelle, thank you. And that's about all we got.
- 1:28Speaker 1: Other than that. I hope you're doing well and we're
- 1:33Speaker 1: all ready for some trivia. Here's how the show works.
- 1:36Speaker 1: Whiz Quiz Bang Bang's format is four rounds of four questions,
- 1:40Speaker 1: each followed by the answers. After round two, we'll ask
- 1:43Speaker 1: a quick fire bang bang question where you'll have a
- 1:45Speaker 1: time limit to give multiple answers. After the fourth round,
- 1:49Speaker 1: the show culminates with the Big Bang, a final round
- 1:52Speaker 1: with three questions whose answers are all clues to one
- 1:56Speaker 1: final question. Round one Question j one. The category is
- 2:01Speaker 1: state capitals. What is the state capital of Wyoming? Question
- 2:11Speaker 1: two category food and drink. Ancient Persians and Greeks encountered
- 2:17Speaker 1: the famous quote reads that produce honey without bees end
- 2:22Speaker 1: quote which we know today as what. Question three category
- 2:31Speaker 1: currency What is the currency of Fiji? Question four category
- 2:41Speaker 1: pop culture. This one comes from listener may Think you May,
- 2:45Speaker 1: Thank You May? Which reality show judge and Dame of
- 2:49Speaker 1: the British Empire was born in Cape Town, South Africa
- 2:53Speaker 1: in nineteen forty and studied at the Cordon Blue School
- 2:57Speaker 1: before opening a Michelin starred restaurant and subsequently a school
- 3:01Speaker 1: to train both professional and amateur cooks in the UK.
- 3:09Speaker 1: And now the answer is to round one Question one,
- 3:12Speaker 1: what is the state capital of Wyoming? Cheyenne? Question two
- 3:20Speaker 1: Ancient Persians and Greeks encountered the famous reeds that produce
- 3:25Speaker 1: honey without bees, which we know today as what sugarcane?
- 3:33Speaker 1: Question three? What is the currency of Fiji the Fijian dollar?
- 3:41Speaker 1: Question four? Which reality show judge and dame of the
- 3:45Speaker 1: British Empire was born in Cape Town, South Africa in
- 3:48Speaker 1: nineteen forty Prue Leith. She joined The Great British Baking
- 3:56Speaker 1: Show in March of twenty seventeen when the show moved
- 3:59Speaker 1: to Channel four and was given the dB for services
- 4:03Speaker 1: to Food, broadcasting, education and charity.
- 4:07Speaker 2: She's being replaced by Caroline Waldgrave as the newest judge
- 4:12Speaker 2: on Great British Bakup. We just got used to prow
- 4:16Speaker 2: Why can't Marry Berry come back?
- 4:18Speaker 1: Come Back? Mary Berry?
- 4:22Speaker 2: Round two? Question five? The category is television. The Broken
- 4:28Speaker 2: Wood Mysteries, Haka Life and Tagata Pacifica are a few
- 4:34Speaker 2: television series from which country? Question six? The category is technology,
- 4:46Speaker 2: which alliterative tech provides transcription or translation of dialogue on
- 4:52Speaker 2: a video screen or other visual display. Question seven. The
- 5:02Speaker 2: category is geography. This question comes from listener Bobby, Thank.
- 5:06Speaker 1: You, Bobby, Thank you Bobby.
- 5:08Speaker 2: What is the only country to border the Red Sea
- 5:12Speaker 2: and the Persian Gulf. Question eight. The category is literature.
- 5:21Speaker 2: Who wrote the novel A Portrait of the Artist as
- 5:25Speaker 2: a young Man in nineteen sixteen and now? The answer
- 5:34Speaker 2: is to round two? Question five? The Brokenwood Mysteries, Hakka
- 5:39Speaker 2: Life and Tagata Pacifica are a few television series from
- 5:44Speaker 2: which country New Zealand? The Brokenwood Mysteries are a lot
- 5:51Speaker 2: of fun? Question six? Which a literative tech provides transcription
- 5:58Speaker 2: or translation of dialogue on a video screen or other
- 6:01Speaker 2: visual display closed captioning? Question seven was the only country
- 6:10Speaker 2: to border the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf Saudi Arabia.
- 6:18Speaker 2: Question eight. Who wrote the novel A Portrait of the
- 6:21Speaker 2: Artist as a young Man in nineteen sixteen? James Joyce.
- 6:28Speaker 2: You know that's one of those you should read this books.
- 6:31Speaker 2: I haven't read yet, so I should get on that.
- 6:33Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever read any James Joyce.
- 6:36Speaker 2: Actually I have Ulysses on hold at Libby, so I
- 6:41Speaker 2: will be knocking that out suit. I think his last
- 6:44Speaker 2: sentence is like two thousand words long or something like ridiculous.
- 6:52Speaker 1: That's it for the first half. That means it's time
- 6:54Speaker 1: for the Bang Bang Round category for this week bangrag
- 7:00Speaker 1: round is film. You'll have thirty seconds to give as
- 7:06Speaker 1: many answers as you can to the following question. There
- 7:09Speaker 1: are seven films in the Jurassic Park film franchise. Name them.
- 7:15Speaker 1: Time starts Now.
- 7:47Speaker 2: And that's time. The seven films in the Jurassic Park
- 7:52Speaker 2: film franchise are Jurassic Park, The Lust World, Jurassic Park,
- 8:00Speaker 2: Jurassic Park three, Jurassic World, Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic
- 8:08Speaker 2: World Dominion, Jurassic World Rebirth. I think they need to
- 8:17Speaker 2: do like what the zombie movies do, where it's like,
- 8:22Speaker 2: all right, the park broke free and went into New York,
- 8:25Speaker 2: and this is thirty years later, where New Yorkers are
- 8:28Speaker 2: just like living with dinosaurs or something. I don't know.
- 8:30Speaker 2: They're just doing the same movie over and over again.
- 8:32Speaker 2: But I haven't seen the most recent one. I hear
- 8:34Speaker 2: it's better than the Chris Kram Yeah.
- 8:38Speaker 1: The twenty tens weren't kind to franchises. I don't feel yeah.
- 8:44Speaker 1: Round three. Question nine. The category is history, which ancient
- 8:50Speaker 1: Greek was later referred to in Dante's Divine Comedy as
- 8:54Speaker 1: Poets Sovereign, King of All Poets. Question ten, Category Science
- 9:05Speaker 1: in art. This one comes from listener Nolan. Thank you, Nolan,
- 9:09Speaker 1: Thank you, Nolan. Bob Ross's happy little clouds were usually
- 9:14Speaker 1: painted with a shade of white named after what element
- 9:18Speaker 1: the dioxide of which is an excellent white pigment. Question
- 9:26Speaker 1: eleven category Games and Hobbies, which character class in D
- 9:31Speaker 1: and D is described as intermediaries between the mortal world
- 9:37Speaker 1: and the distant planes of the gods, and imbued with
- 9:40Speaker 1: divine magic. Question twelve category Folklore. In nineteen twenty one,
- 9:51Speaker 1: folklorist Margaret Murray promoted the idea that all witches across
- 9:56Speaker 1: Europe met in covens of how many people and now
- 10:04Speaker 1: they answers to round three. Question nine, which ancient Greek
- 10:08Speaker 1: was later referred to in the Divine Comedy as poets
- 10:11Speaker 1: Sovereign King of all poets, Homer.
- 10:17Speaker 2: Makes sense.
- 10:19Speaker 1: Question ten. Bob Ross's happy little clouds were usually painted
- 10:23Speaker 1: with a shade of white named after what element titanium?
- 10:30Speaker 1: Titanium white, and when he used yellow it was cadmium yellow.
- 10:38Speaker 1: Question eleven, which character class in D and D is
- 10:41Speaker 1: described as intermediaries between the mortal world and the distant
- 10:45Speaker 1: planes of the gods, and imbued with divine magic clerics.
- 10:53Speaker 1: Question twelve. In nineteen twenty one, folkloreist Margaret Murray promoted
- 10:57Speaker 1: the idea that all witches across Europe met covens. Of
- 11:00Speaker 1: how many people thirteen?
- 11:07Speaker 2: I mean that's just common knowledge.
- 11:11Speaker 1: I guess technically, if you have at least three, you've
- 11:15Speaker 1: got a coven. But it's good, you know, thirteen's an
- 11:18Speaker 1: unlucky number, the devil's number, all that good stuff.
- 11:23Speaker 2: Yeah, I had to meet up with thirteen people, I
- 11:26Speaker 2: just be like, I just won't be awaitch round four.
- 11:32Speaker 2: Question thirteen. The category is music. This question comes from
- 11:36Speaker 2: listener Major Data, Thank you, Major You Major What nineteen
- 11:42Speaker 2: ninety eight song mentions the following people and things Akira Kurosawa,
- 11:49Speaker 2: sailor Moon, Harrison, Ford, Snickers, candy bar, and wasabi. Question fourteen.
- 12:02Speaker 2: The category is language introduced in a linguistic sense by
- 12:07Speaker 2: Lewis Carroll, which term is also called a blend word.
- 12:16Speaker 2: Question fifteen. The category is science. Contact with water and
- 12:21Speaker 2: oxygen causes iron to rust in what chemical process? Question sixteen.
- 12:32Speaker 2: The category is sports. Which current Premier League teams badge
- 12:39Speaker 2: features a lion on a sky blue background, and now
- 12:47Speaker 2: the answer is to Round four. Question thirteen. What song
- 12:52Speaker 2: mentions the following people in things A Kira, Kurosawa, sailor Moon,
- 12:56Speaker 2: Harrison Ford, Snickers, candy bar and Wassabi one week get
- 13:05Speaker 2: out of Here Snickers? Question fourteen introduced in a linguistic
- 13:11Speaker 2: sense by Lewis Carroll. Which term is also called a
- 13:15Speaker 2: blend word portmanteau? Question fifteen? Contact with water and oxygen
- 13:24Speaker 2: causes iron to rest in? What chemical process oxidation? Question sixteen?
- 13:33Speaker 2: Which current Premier League team's badge features a lion on
- 13:36Speaker 2: a sky blue background? Aston Villa.
- 13:44Speaker 1: That's it for the regular rounds, which means it's time
- 13:47Speaker 1: for the Big Bang Round. The category for this week's
- 13:56Speaker 1: Big Bang Round is language. Ask you three questions, the
- 14:01Speaker 1: answers of which are all clues to the final question.
- 14:05Speaker 1: Keep in mind the clue questions may not be from
- 14:07Speaker 1: the same category as the final. Question One Which well
- 14:13Speaker 1: known film character created by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gail
- 14:17Speaker 1: has the middle name Lathrop?
- 14:24Speaker 2: Question two? Who took a selfie in twenty fourteen with
- 14:28Speaker 2: Neil Degrass Tyson and Barack Obama? And yes he was
- 14:32Speaker 2: wearing a bow tie at the time.
- 14:39Speaker 1: Question three which literary character dies in the Arctic after
- 14:43Speaker 1: pursuing his quote unquote fiend and demon there?
- 14:52Speaker 2: And your Big Bang Question? English polymath William Hule is
- 14:58Speaker 2: credited with coining what term in eighteen thirty three for
- 15:03Speaker 2: students of the knowledge of the material world collectively?
- 15:11Speaker 1: And now the answers to the Big Bang round? Question one?
- 15:14Speaker 1: Which well known film character created by Robert Zemeckis and
- 15:18Speaker 1: Bob Gail has the middle name Lethrop? Doctor Emmett L.
- 15:25Speaker 1: Brown from Back to the Future.
- 15:29Speaker 2: Question two? Who took a selfie in twenty fourteen with
- 15:33Speaker 2: Neil deGrasse Tyson and Barack Obama Bill Nye.
- 15:41Speaker 1: He was also given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by
- 15:44Speaker 1: President Biden in January of this year. Twenty joint five,
- 15:48Speaker 1: Oh nice? Question three? Which literary character dies in the
- 15:52Speaker 1: Arctic after pursuing his fiend and demon there? Victor Frankenstein.
- 16:02Speaker 2: And your Big Bang Question? English polymath William Hewle is
- 16:07Speaker 2: credited with coining what term in eighteen thirty three for
- 16:11Speaker 2: students of the knowledge of the material world collectively? The
- 16:17Speaker 2: vocation that doctor Brown, Bill Nye, and Victor Frickenstein all share.
- 16:22Speaker 2: It's scientists.
- 16:25Speaker 1: Yeah, so this guy coined the term scientist. Before that,
- 16:28Speaker 1: it was they would refer to them as natural philosophers
- 16:32Speaker 1: or naturalists, but philosophy was kind of in there with
- 16:39Speaker 1: the sciences and stuff when you talked about those types
- 16:43Speaker 1: of folks.
- 16:43Speaker 2: I mean, it makes sense because I think both philosophy
- 16:47Speaker 2: and science is just trying to get a deeper understanding
- 16:50Speaker 2: of the world around you.
- 16:51Speaker 1: It's a good pointy. He also coined a bunch of
- 16:54Speaker 1: other terms. I believe physicist was one of them, and
- 16:58Speaker 1: he was kind of known for his wordsmithing at the time.
- 17:02Speaker 1: Yo William Huele, whose last name was spelled we will
- 17:08Speaker 1: w h W E l L but apparently pronounced Hewle.
- 17:12Speaker 2: What is he? A Moby Dick character qua quek quad
- 17:18Speaker 2: creek quad pee quad peak.
- 17:20Speaker 1: Pequand oh yeah, quek way pea quad quek quad ishab
- 17:28Speaker 1: a mail.
- 17:31Speaker 2: Starbucks moby Bucks.
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- 18:00Speaker 2: Thank you for this episode of Quiz, Quiz, Bang Bang.
- 18:03Speaker 2: I've been, Andy Flora.
- 18:04Speaker 1: I've been David Flora is looking at you. Quiz Victor Frankenstein.
- 18:21Speaker 2: Yeah, I always forget that that book ends with like
- 18:23Speaker 2: Frankenstein jumping off a boat and running off in the ice.
- 18:28Speaker 1: Yeah, well he oh.
- 18:29Speaker 2: No, sorry not Frankstein. Frankenstein's monster, my bad yeah, also
- 18:34Speaker 2: known as Adam.
- 18:35Speaker 1: It's a wild ending. Everybody just goes to the North
- 18:39Speaker 1: Pole and disappears.
- 18:42Speaker 2: Yeah, I always forget that. That's how it ends.
- 18:44Speaker 1: She set herself up well to have a sequel where
- 18:47Speaker 1: someone you know in the nineteen hundred's finds a block
- 18:50Speaker 1: of ice with the monster in it and then boom,